What's up, RMers?

[Steel Beast 6Beets]

Oh, my bad. I should have been more specific: I was asking in which .rxdata file in the Data Folder were switches and variables stored since all of them are pretty self-explanatory (Enemies.rxdata, Animations.rxdata, CommonEvents.rxdata, etc).

You see, my computer began to act again and my project was corrupted thanks to an unexpected shutdown. I just copy and pasted the files of the maps that I was working on to a backup and that seemed to work until I noticed that the switches were missing. I opted to just copy all the non-map rxdata files and that fixed the issue.

[DerVVulfman]

Ah, that is the System.rxdata file.  It holds the 'content' of the RPG::System class that holds what you define within the editor.  Insofar as the switches and variables, it is just a list and not the actual values that change in-game.  Value changes are again in the $game_switches, $game_variables array:

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module RPG
  class System
    def initialize
      @magic_number = 0
      @party_members = [1]
      @elements = [nil, ""]
      @switches = [nil, ""]
      @variables = [nil, ""]
      @windowskin_name = ""
      @title_name = ""
      @gameover_name = ""
      @battle_transition = ""
      @title_bgm = RPG::AudioFile.new
      @battle_bgm = RPG::AudioFile.new
      @battle_end_me = RPG::AudioFile.new
      @gameover_me = RPG::AudioFile.new
      @cursor_se = RPG::AudioFile.new("", 80)
      @decision_se = RPG::AudioFile.new("", 80)
      @cancel_se = RPG::AudioFile.new("", 80)
      @buzzer_se = RPG::AudioFile.new("", 80)
      @equip_se = RPG::AudioFile.new("", 80)
      @shop_se = RPG::AudioFile.new("", 80)
      @save_se = RPG::AudioFile.new("", 80)
      @load_se = RPG::AudioFile.new("", 80)
      @battle_start_se = RPG::AudioFile.new("", 80)
      @escape_se = RPG::AudioFile.new("", 80)
      @actor_collapse_se = RPG::AudioFile.new("", 80)
      @enemy_collapse_se = RPG::AudioFile.new("", 80)
      @words = RPG::System::Words.new
      @test_battlers = []
      @test_troop_id = 1
      @start_map_id = 1
      @start_x = 0
      @start_y = 0
      @battleback_name = ""
      @battler_name = ""
      @battler_hue = 0
      @edit_map_id = 1
    end

Of course, this is separate than any values someone adds into $game_system with their own custom scripts.

[kyonides]

To be clear here, System.rxdata will ONLY store the "names" of switches and variables, not the values. There you won't find any true, false or Numeric values at all.

[Steel Beast 6Beets]

I see. Thanks for the explanations.

Fortunately, the events I had been working on required only switches and now are doing what they're supposed to do.